STATUTORY RULES.

1959. No. 74.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMERCE (TRADE

DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905–1950.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905–1950.

Dated this 27th day of August, 1959.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

signed Denham Henty.

Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

 

Amendments of the Commerce (Imports) Regulations.†

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation upon the expiration of six months after the date on which they are notified in the Gazette.

Definitions.

2. Regulation 5 of the Commerce (Imports) Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of “leather”.

Conditional prohibition of certain imports.

3. Regulation 7 of the Commerce (Imports) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (g) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(g) leather intended for, or usually employed in, the manufacture of boots, shoes and other apparel;”;

(b) by inserting after paragraph (h) the following paragraph:—

“(ha) goods, the total outside area of which is not less than twenty-four square inches, specified in the Fourth Schedule to these Regulations, being—

(i) goods made from leather or a material resembling leather;

(ii) goods made from fibre or vulcanite or a material resembling fibre or vulcanite; or

(iii) goods made from plastic;”; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 3rd September, 1959.

† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 280, as amended by Statutory Rules 1949, No. 46; 1951, No. 154; 1952, No. 48; 1953, No. 54; 1954, Nos. 73 and 104; and 1955, Nos. 33 and 68.

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(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) For the purposes of paragraph (ha) of the last preceding sub-regulation, goods shall be deemed to be made from—

(a) leather or a material resembling leather;

(b) fibre or vulcanite or a material resembling fibre or vulcanite; or

(c) plastic,

if more than one-half of the outside area of the goods consists of leather, a material resembling leather, fibre, a material resembling fibre, vulcanite, a material resembling vulcanite or plastic, as the case requires.”.

Articles of apparel, textile products and leather.

4. Regulation 15 of the Commerce (Imports) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(16.) In this regulation, ‘leather’ means leather intended for, or usually employed in, the manufacture of boots, shoes and other apparel.”.

Goods specified in the Fourth Schedule.

5. After regulation 15 of the Commerce (Imports) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“15a. In the case of goods specified in the Fourth Schedule to these Regulations, the trade description should state the name of the material or materials constituting the outside or covering of the goods.”.

Third Schedule.

6. The Third Schedule to the Commerce (Imports) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting, after the words “Coir mats and matting;”, the words “seagrass mats and matting;”; and

(b) by inserting after the words “Sporting Goods” the words “(not being goods specified in the Fourth Schedule to these Regulations made, or deemed to have been made, from a material referred to in sub-paragraph (i), (ii), or (iii) of paragraph (ha) of sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 7 of these Regulations)”.

Fourth Schedule.

7. The Commerce (Imports) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Schedule:—

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

GOODS TO WHICH REGULATIONS 7 (1.) (ha) and 15a APPLY.

Attaché cases

Ladies’ handbags

Bicycle saddles

Leggings

Boxing gloves

Machine belting

Bridles

Men’s belts

Brief cases

Pouches

Cases for gramophones, musical instruments, television sets or wireless sets

Punching bags

Punching balls

Document cases

Purses

Folio cases

Razor strops

Footballs

Saddles

Gloves

Schoolbags

Golf bags

School cases

Harness

Shopping bags

Hat boxes

Sporting goods

Hat cases

Suit cases

Horse collars

Trunks

Kit bags

Wallets

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.